Christopher Benek

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  Sep 11, 2015

  Technology Will Expose the Sin in Our Hearts

  As technology continues to increasingly develop it exposes human intention while eliminating our privacy. The result of this accelerating trend is that the confidentiality that we currently maintain as persons will continue to erode. As such, we should begin to prepare ourselves for the biggest reveal of all: The day when technology exposes the thoughts of our mind.

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  Aug 20, 2015

  You Cannot Serve Both God and Internet Trolling

  The intentional introduction of inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic posts with the deliberate intent of disrupting regular on-topic group discussion — commonly known as Internet trolling — has become a favorite pastime of many Christians in the world today.

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  Jul 10, 2015

  Virtual Reality Will Enable the Next Large Revival in the Global Church

  Twenty-five years ago most people didn't imagine that the Internet would reshape the way that they existed on a day-to-day basis.

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  Jun 23, 2015

  The Singularity: Christianity's New Eschatological Hope

  Recently, at each of our church's worship services, I asked the members of the congregation I serve to indicate, by a show of hands, how many of them believe that they will not die. Not a single person answered in the affirmative.

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  Jun 12, 2015

  A Vote for the Transhumanist Party Presidential Candidate Is a Vote for Tyranny

  I am advocate for transhumanism, rightly defined. I am certainly not a technophobe who perceives all technology to be bad. In my opinion, human technology - like all matter - is a tool that can be used for good or evil.

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  May 31, 2015

  Why Christians Should Embrace Transhumanism

  Much of the distress about transhumanism by Christians in the past surrounds its proponent's vocal Atheistic attempts to define the prefix "trans" in ways that advocate individual enhancement through technological means to become "post" human.

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  May 22, 2015

  Babies Are Not Born Atheists

  It is a popular claim by Atheists that eventually science will somehow eliminate the need for religion. Many even argue that, in our present age of exponentially advancing technology, we are already beginning to see the numerical decline of religious persons in the United States.

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  May 7, 2015

  The Intentional Negligence of the Golden Rule Via Technological Advances

  This growing trend, I believe, reflects a larger technological and ethical shift towards personal, individual advancement and elitism that is intentionally disregarding the historic Christian concept of the advancement of all of humanity.

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  Apr 22, 2015

  The Intersection of Theology and Technological Futurism

  There are many people in the world today who like to contend that science and technology are distinctly at odds with religious practice and theological inquiry.

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  Mar 25, 2015

  Sexbots: These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For

  Sexbots will not be the cure for many of society's ills that some predict. But intelligent, sentient robots could, some day, help us become more Christ-like.